Gould brings his wife, the elegant English-born Mrs. Gould is sick of the rampant corruption and volatility in his region, and plans to make the mine a success and donate his wealth to Ribiera’s regime in hopes the ruler will instill a sense of stability. In the fictional mining town of Sulaco, a seaport on the west-coast of Costaguana, a native of English descent named Charles Gould overtakes his father’s silver mine. Following years of tyranny and war-torn revolution, Costaguana is now stable under the rule of dictator Don Vincente Ribiera. The time period is unspecified, but the geography of the region most resembles the country of Colombia.
Scott Fitzgerald once noted of the book, “I’d have rather written Nostromo than any other novel.” Narrated in the third-person- omniscient perspective, the story begins with a basic description of the fictional South American republic of Costaguana. It is hailed as one of Conrad’s finest pieces of long-fiction. In 1998, Nostromo was ranked 47th on the list of the 100 Greatest English-language Novels of the 20th Century by the Modern Library.
Nostromo accepts the challenge as means of heightening his profile, but when he fails to reap the rich benefits he was promised, he becomes resentfully outraged and greedily corrupt. Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana during a violent revolution, the story concerns an Italian longshoreman named Nostromo, who becomes entrusted to safeguard a priceless silver mine owned by an Englishman named Charles Gould, aka The King of Sulaco. Originally published as a two-volume serial in T.P.’s Weekly, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is the 1904 epic adventure novel written by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad.
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